Electric lighter for gas-stoves.



F. 0. GUTENBERGER. t ELECTRIC LIGHTER FOR GAS STOVES.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

WITNESS,

NITED SCR-MTES PATENT QFFICE.

FREDERICK C. GUTENBERGER, OF SACRAMENT, CALIFGRNIA.

ELECTRIC LIGHTER FOR GAS-STOVES.

Application led December G, 1915.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. GUTEN- BERGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Lighters for Gas-Stoves; and 1 do declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked there on, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in means for lighting gas discharged from the burners of gas stoves by means of electrical contact, the object of the invention being to produce such a device that when touched against the burner of the gas stove will make a sufficient spark to allow of the ignition of the gas when the same is turned on to be discharged through the burner.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposes for which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of the parts as will fullv appear by a perusal of the following speciiication and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device showing perfectly its connections with the stove indicated by a fragmentary portion thereof.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the coil of the device with the cover removed.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view showing the circuit described by the electrical energy when operated through my improved device.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings l first provide a suitable supporting member 1 having a hole 2 or other suitable means for fastening the same to the wall at a point Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

Serial No. 65,179.

adjacent the stove, a fragmentary portion of the stove being indicated by the numeral 3.

On the support 1 1 provide a plate l mounted on which is an inductive coil 5. The numeral 6 designates the source of electrical energy, which may be of the character found most desirable, leading from one pole on which is a. wire 7 which connects with the plate el, as at 8, and thence leads through the plate e to the coil 9 which is ordinarily sheltered by a removable cover 10. From the coil 9 the wire 8 leads into and through an operating handle 11 having screwed in its lower end a copper tip 12, the said wire 8a being connected with the said copper tip.

At the opposite end of the handle 11 I provide an eye 13 by which said handle 11 may be hung in any suitably convenient point on a hook 14 mounted on the support 1 or at any other suitable place.

In practice, when the device is to be used, the handle 11 is grasped by the operator and the tip 12 touched against the stove 3 with a make and break action. Each time it is touched to the stove and moved to form a gap, an electric circuit is completed from the source of electrical energy 6 through the wire 8, coil 9, continuing from the coil 9 through the wire 8n to the tip 12, stove 3, and through the wire 15 back to the source of electrical energy 6.

By means of this circuit, when the tip 12 is touched to and gapped from the stove 8 it will each time make a spark, which spark will ignite the gas discharging from the burner of the said stove.

From the foregoing description it will readily be seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfils the object of the invention as set forth herein.

Nhile this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such devia tions from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what ing a head by which it may be grasped and 10 I claim as new and useful and desire to unscrewed, said head being smaller than secure by Letters Patent is: the end of the holder whereby it will not An electric spark device comprising a come in.contact with the stove when the 5 holder having a threaded recess at one end, holder is laid thereon, and means for coma Wire embedded centrally through the pleting an electric circuit through the Wire 15 holder and terminating at the bottom of the and tip. recess, a removable tip threaded into the In testimony whereof I afx my signature. recess to contact with the Wire, said tip hav- FREDERICK C. GUTENBERGER. l

Ccpies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

